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when he was sealing there in the 1820s. He told Edward Shortland he lost a boat and all its hands when it was dashed on the island while trying to land. He stayed alone overnight and was picked up by another boat the following day.
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Green Island used to be called St Michael's Mount, suggesting it had been named after the island of that name off the Cornish coast. It is more likely it was so named after
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The uncleared native forest on the island lends its name to similar "Green Island" native forest on the nearby mainland, on the
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gang were landed. Some of the men claimed to have stayed on these two islands from 9 November 1809 until 20 December 1810.
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BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Gree Island (Okaihe). Downloaded from
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and sailing under Robert Mason, dropped eight men of a gang of eleven in November 1809.
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is a small, uninhabited island lying 2 km off the coast of the
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region of New Zealand, some 13 km south-west of the city of
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Green Island may be the 'Isle of Wight' where the Sydney
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The island is a nesting site of yellow-eyed penguins
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Green Island (Okaihe)
Māori
Green Island is located in New Zealand
Dunedin
Otago
Otago
Dunedin
sealer
Robert Campbell
William Tucker
Whareakeake
Otago Heads
Taieri Island
Tommy Chaseland's
guano
Yellow-eyed penguin vocalising
Important Bird Area
BirdLife International
yellow-eyed penguins
bronze shags
Otago Peninsula
Green Island
territorial authority
Dunedin City
icon
Islands portal
List of islands of New Zealand
List of islands
Desert island
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